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Six hundred years ago in Oxford:
BAD WINE
REIGN
T
HE students' wine was bad, and the Swyndlestock
tavern, in the centre
of Oxford, full of their angry voices. But the land- lord, John de Croydon, re- flecting the townspeople's hostility to the University, Insolent in his replies, They could take the wine- or leave it.
Was
Suddenly one of the studiues, Walter de Springheufe, seized The wine Jug and hurled its con- tenis In the landlord's fage, A companion Roger de Chester- feld, grabbed the jug and threw that too at the quor-drenched de Croydon,
It was the morning of Feb- ruary 10, 1355, the festival of St Scholastica, patron saint of scholars and a public holliday In Oxford. February 10, 1355, o fateful day in the history of the University, for that fruens in the tavern was the spark which ex- ploded Three days of terror, three days of pillage and slaugh. ter. At ils end hardly a living student femained in the bow, 19
colleg hatts were destroyed Oxford and the University of semed obliterated,
Call to Arms
London Express Servios
LED TO A
OF TERROR
By ROBERT MILNE-TYTE
the King sent a writ throughout the land encouraging students to return.
The following month the King was forced to issue a letter to the scholars "destring them
ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRAN- most
GEST STORIES
After three days hardly a living student remained in the town, 19 college halls
were destroyed and the University scomed obliterated
be
The mayor, ringleader in the day's outbreak, also previous
reace to seemed content for restored, for soon after dawn he But out on the seven-mile journey to Wexistock, to report to King Etward the Third, who was ther lving there. But the object of his journey was to influence the in his favour by telling his King version of the trouble first, hav- ing ensured meanwhile that the town bailiffs were fully com- petent and rendy to slit up fur-
her unrest
perty, food and wines burnt or looted
nomo
feiture.
were shouldering shells, and the triumph of the town secmei complete.
earnestly 10 return to their studies,”
At this an air of normality slowly reappeared as more and more students returned to rein- force the men of Merton College. When everyone else had been put to fight they remained resolutely behind the walls of their college, then 60 years old in daily prayer and lamentation at the carnage they had witrièmed.
The townsmen, already suffer- Thy inprisonment and excom- munication, soon had further cause to regret their actions.
of
On the King's judgment several long-standing points contention ware settled in favour of the University so that the liberties of the town were largely Townnnen under its control. were ordered, in spite of their to make reparations to protests, the extent of £250 la consider- in the 14th century) able sum and to replace all property lost or destroyed.
Complete Accord
AS for the rioters, although A some
have appear to remained in
for prison thero
months,
aro
That troubled night a public
Fortunately. however, the proclamation was made in the of King Edward
pro-
prowess of Oxford stood high with both Church and Crown, hibiting injury to scholars and their goods under pain of for- and bufore long the axe of retri-
But complete annihila-
the town. bullon ftil up tion of the Univeralty still decree of excommunication,
was seemed within the power of the plicable to every resident, townsmen, and nothing would Issued by the Bishop of Lincoln. deter them.
following a afterwards, Although
of inquiry, and Royal commission the scholars their servante barricaded them- the mayer and balls were im- selves in their colleges and halls prisoned in the Tower of London,
жеге
ere broken into and destroyed tion of Oxford gaated locally. the notorious Robert Lardiner, by Are and weapon. Although laid their
plans with relish. rome of the occupants escaped the young University was Having warned townsmen to into the country Many were
the every- prepare for action at the sound- murdered and exerting Lley life
St Martin's thrown on dunghills or cast into also removed from office for “hat viper Rescribed him, be- of Oxford WAS Д
ing of the bell in suairce of mounting jealousy and church, they hired reinforcements the streets.
his fallure to prevent the particl
University resentment to the mayor and his from surrounding villages and
pallon of countrymen In the came a prosperous merchant and, officers. Sooner or later the f from Abugden, six miles distant. Total Casualties
premumably in atonement for his Shortly before noon their
great sin, à generous benefac- tor to the Church.
FOR
months previously relationa between Town and Oown had deteriorated. The increasing influence which
over
storm must break.
بالمان
of
These two, John de Norton and residence 14 such buildings and almost all the male popuin- least survived to the calm of old
their bodies
COME, hideously mutilated but
was
Murder Crazed
THE Sheriff of Oxfordshire was
many до recorde of exequtions. Among the protagonists two at the Walter de Springheufe age. student whose anger sparked off the explosion, became a parish priest in the diocese of Bath and Wells, while the former mayor, de Boreford" as the
the
an
casualties among the And it was the mayor, John activities began. Flest mob
ccholars during those fateful de Bereford, also owner of the evicted a Muster of Divinity and
stil Hving, were dragged to three days were never recorded, Town and Gown now live in Swyndlestocks tavern, who was his pupils from the Augustine
prison, and elsewhere the since it was impossible to dis- complete accord. At a joint Fortmost in urging actim when Schools (now Wadham College) murder crazed mob flayed the cover in many cases whether commemoration ceremony this the wet and enraged landord wounding several who resisted, shaven scalps of captured clergy. students had been murdered and year the 600th anniversary was ал ushed
to proclaim the und then a second
conferring Nothing group, 19
their bodies burled or whether marked. sacred thal
by students' behaviour.
strong attacked a number of
morning When
of the friars no they had filed from Oxford never honorary freedom In Beaumont Fields, frienda
to return. of the students under
But in an effort to The mayor's words were heard students
ΔΩΣ thơ on
Vice-Chancellor, who lived King A H. Smith, Warden
of ΟΣ normal circumstances but united protect those two persistent agitators, outside the North gate. Robert Lardiner and
the Edward sent edicts by the danger to
to every Now College, and the honorary Forster, who were quick to Enraged Landlord University marched out in sheriff, mayor and bailiff in the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, them under the highest honour the University solemn procession to quell the kingdom ordering
pain of death to afford the can confer, on the mayor, Alder- The last man W. R. Gowers. chureb, where head was trampled underfoot Oxford men protection.
In May, concerned lest the echoes of discord are forever assembled and its bearer slain. had
remain per- stillød. tho resulted in
By mid-day hardly a student University should
manently in its state of decline,
by
Richard
foment trouble with such
athoritative support.
At the
now
nsistent clangur of the towns attack, launched from uproar even the cross at their
St
Giles's
sell a crowd soun LBsembled the force nd. Incited by Lardiner and his in secret, companion quickly gathered deaths
of БОУСТВ of the was left alive in Oxford, 19 halls
rms and began to attack indivi- students. It also touched off the sual scholars.
second day'a battle, for the bells were soon sounding a general crll to arms and Town and Gown were once more in combat.
Reinforcements
The
the
tempered
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WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE
FOUNT OF LIFE BABIES?
Bonn.
By WILLIAM HAMSHER
run us
JOHN Wylly ot, Chancellor of For some hours, having blocked the University, addressed the l the town gates, the students! ob in an attempt to subdue the held their own, but outside the gathering storm, but his words walls the mob of reinforcements now jors and curses Arrows grow hourly. Towards evening ell around him as he spoke in # i fared of some 2,000 had osem- vain, Protected by a bodyguard bied yelling. blood-fusing
First Frau - ' Frau Dr. Lueders spoke of he retreated before
The difficulty? before pack with the savagery of wild
beasts.
WHAT happened to the Dr Lueders and then a Home her future alma. She is not W Soon a
worried about those children a second boll rang
Ministry official explained. Spurred on by picked agitatore,
thousands of Nazi the town, the bell of the
Sald the Frau Doctor: "Theme since adopted through Allied who played on the bdaabrite'
Life communities refugee organisations. But ahe Ity church of St Mary, at whose Ignorance and deep-seated hatred "Fount of Life" babies Fount of
they warning scholars
were als anglous to find out whether everywhere of the secular clergy, by whom the children of 88 fathers were hastened to their college and the Univenlly was mainly
Enty top 65 men are dodging Balls. Hurriedly arming them-
SB men repeatedly and blonde mothers, chosen state within a stato
went along for their obligations. lated stormed the West gate, until at under Himmler's rules to holidays and they old, meet The
the so-called Nazi maldons, service will be called in to help Until dusk on that February sad it yielded. In they urged, produce racial perfection?
mombeta of the "Belies sad and out. S on ominous black ding in the Van,
Frau Elisabeth Luredem, 77 Beauty" League.
V mm, #It will be a tertino, job to widowed Docler of Seld the
official:
probe all the Fount of Lille Philosophy, baslaugohod s'acude to comes, and casualties
crusade to find out. And the cause so much of what want
this monster' värd index: · ́ tromm en both · aldos were relatively
date was broken making ang done on inside there communiter archives plaid my official of down the scholars, withdrew to In whose care are these childred from the public, histo
urther inquiries along at the rate At the output of the following their halla but the mot had come rem? Who in eading, clothing no need for new arrival lo
Wednesday all appeared to kill, and kill that would, as educating them? Who he be regained with thei
ount? of Life, a cáme of 10,000); a' indath (from all over film within the war of Datort mod with iron bare, clubs and meetings, tos, Blur
had
elves with bows and arrows
they
took
up the battle.
the
mob
ay, precisely 600 years ago, and soos Oxford was echoing to
poradio aghting continued, but It was the merest foretaste of the their charts of "Stay, alay and your-old
light
the scholars, obedient
"Havoc, havoc."
When tho
a motley of other improvised weapons they reculled fe pelle
Chancellor Adedauers. Homs oor
Wyusch torbickling furthe, dll. By bightfall Ave mouldy Min
quiety (to) bearing crime, the dorpenty murs
sig dered or put to fight hele wee
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